https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/artist

Eligibility: +2 Pass
4 Year Professional Bachelor Degree in
Bharathiar Palkalaikoodam,
Puducherry.

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+91 9443329163, 9345400935
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Bheetar Bahar is an online training programme for performing artists to learn how to use performance to process current personal realities.

This 4-month part-time online course is for practising and experienced performance makers who seek to understand the nature of the responses that have arisen within, from India’s current political climate and the COVID-19 induced lockdowns, and to explore the methodologies that they can use to process and express their disquiet, through their art.

The course is taught by Maitri Gopalakrishna, Shabari Rao and Sharon Paz as well as guest lecturers from the fields of performance, mental health and expressive arts therapy.

Time commitment: There will be a combination of regular online classes, peer group work and individual work through the four months. Expect to spend an average of 15-20 hours a week on this programme over the four months. 

Applications open July 9, 2021
Applications close July 24, 2021
Conversations (if required) July 25-30, 2021
Announcing the course participants August 2, 2021
Course begins August 16, 2021
Course ends December 18, 2021 

Who can apply?
Any performing artist above 18 years of age, living and working in India.
Theatre directors, actors, playwrights, dancers, musicians, stand-up comics, spoken word artists.

How do I apply?
Via this application form

How much does it cost?
The tuition itself is free. In addition to the course, select participants may also be invited to develop a performance piece to be showcased at a Festival to be announced in 2022.  

For more information, please visit 

• Bheetar Bahar FAQs

or email Vivek Madan at harlequin.ent@gmail.com 

About the Residency

Format: 

• Selected artists will work in pairs. Each pair will be assigned a mentor and will collaborate online over a period of 6 weeks (15 September to 29 October 2021). 
• Applicants are encouraged to apply in pairs. For individual applicants, the pairing will be done by the organisers.
• Each applicant/pair of applicants is/are required to respond to the theme as indicated in the call. Each applicant/pair will further define and propose a specific project based on the theme to be developed with the mentor.
• Each pair will work on a final output that could take the form of an online performance or work in progress, photo documentary, podcast, video documentary, amongst others. The final output of the residency will be published on culture360.ASEF.org and Casa Asia social media channels
• At the end of residency, each pair will take part in a webinar, podcast and/or video interview about the collaborative process as part of a wider sharing of their residency experience.

Fee: Each participant will receive a fee of SGD 750 for their participation in the residency to be used for the implementation of their project idea (e.g. research fee, purchase of materials or any other necessary service fee)

Theme

What is home? What is being at home? What is being away from home?

With the current pandemic environment, ‘Stay at Home’ has come to be a common term around the globe. At the same time, it has questioned our habits and way of living, embodying both a comfortable and a “forced” sensation. In order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic, people have been asked to stay home except for essential tasks. In this truncated existence, we have had to reacquaint ourselves with our homes and its structures, and its physical and functional aspects. It is not only a space for shelter, but now it is also an office, a classroom, an exercise studio, a playground, amongst other features. It has become a space where we feel protected but also confined from others, where physical contact is restricted but where the virtual world has expanded. Homes used to be spaces where people would escape to but with the lockdowns, people have also experienced the desire to escape from home.

Home is more than a place. It’s a concept, an idea, a memory, an imagination. A non-physical and barrierless concept, which embodies a space that is identified as “home”: it is our neighbourhood, our city, our country or the globe itself. Yet, the pandemic has restricted us to move within this space, depriving us from or transforming the sense of home. This has also changed the boundaries of home, the opportunities for encounter, dialogue, reflection, and creation.

Submission of applications

We invite you to submit your application through this form and attach the required documents latest by 30 July 2021

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When: 9am – 1pm, 16-20 March 2021

Where: CRIPA, Auroville

When: 9am – 1pm, 16-20 March 2021

Where: CRIPA, Auroville

When: 9am – 1pm, 16-20 March 2021

Where: CRIPA, Auroville

Workshop 1 : EMBODYING CRITICAL SITUATION (Improvisation and Composition)

5 Day Intensive with Abhilash Ningappa

DATES / TIME AND PLACE : FROM 11 till 15 February at New Creation and Cripa on final day 15 February of workshop we deliver work in progress performance at 7:30pm. Daily schedule from 12:30 to 4:30 pm and weekend full day from 11 till 5 pm

Here is more about Abilash work:

EMBODYING CRITICAL SITUATION (Improvisation and Composition workshop)  His Workshop is focused on Improvisation working on fundamentals like breath, speed and energy, involving the core structure of the body influenced by different methods of kalari payattu and other martial arts combined, focusing mainly on dancers relationship with the space and the people around.

 The practice is about identifying our way of expressing into certain situations like a moment of confrontation, dealing ,accepting and mainly reacting. Inventing a score to create an incident and let the body react and mind follows and other way around. Using senses to provoke emotions created through incidents. Identifying the space filled with accumulated information through movement and research.

 We experience reaction through various tasks and scores, to disengage mind from body and observing the reaction of body, recollecting or replaying the incident and to identify it with a new perspective, the new is nothing but a combination of various memories played in different time and space which is changing and passing every moment. Bringing feeling and letting the body occupy and transfer, letting it pass in order to give space for the next incident. Running from incident to incident, going through different emotional state, identifying the presence and absence, and identifying the state of mind and body through these different emotional state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJ9Tt1LEck&feature=emb_logo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD1B-nO7IP8&feature=emb_logo

more in this link https://www.playpractice.in/artistic-director

Workshop 2 : REST IN MOTION

5 Day Intensive with Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy

DATES / timing  : 16th February from 5pm Cripa till 8pm, 17th till 20th – 9 till 1pm and on 20th performance at 6pm Cripa 

Deepak Kurki Shivaswamy has been developing pedagogy for contemporary dance since 2004. His training is informed from multiple sources movement methodology. Core of the work is to find safe movement practice and to recognize the individuality of a dancer. The workshop will be a combination guided improvisation and set movement tasks. Sessions encourage the participants to reflect and explore the possibilities of movement. Emphasis is placed on breath, alignment, joint articulation, and the use of gravity and momentum to facilitate movement. Creative sessions allow students to explore creating short movement
sketches which will demand them to think, question and investigate the body and its politics.